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I Read The News Today... For April 4, 2011

A Perfect Circle have announced that tickets for their upcoming summer reunion tour go on sale on Friday. (In other news... LOL.) —aperfectcircle.com Regina indie poppers Library Voices have signed to Nevado Records, which is home to Yukon Blonde, Bahamas and The Golden Dogs. They'll release their Summer Of Lust sophomore album sometime this...
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I Fought The Law... For The Week Ending March 18, 2011

Axl Rose gets to sue Activision. And the lawsuit is basically just because he hates Slash. —World Entertainment News Network via Jam! Make sure you have permission to use that photograph of Run-D.M.C. in your next street art piece. Los Angeles' Thierry Guetta is getting sued because Run D.M.C. say he didn't have permission to do just that very...
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Axl Rose Voted Greatest Lead Singer Of All Time

Everyone make sure this news doesn't find its way to Axl Rose because lord knows it'll only puff up his already massive ego. The readers of MusicRadar.com have voted the Guns N' Roses main man the best singer of all time in a new poll that was released yesterday. Rose somehow managed to best both Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant in the poll. Those...
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I Fought The Law... For Nov. 24, 2010

I Fought The Law is a new CHARTattack column in which we track musicians' ongoing run-ins with The Man (and each other) everywhere. It looks like Happy Mondays dancer Bez is no longer on the run. He's going back to court after police arrested him at London, England's Euston train station. See, Bez allegedly broke a restraining order involving his...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 2, 2010

Peter Saville, who's famous for designing album covers for the likes of Joy Division and New Order, has created the new shirts for England's soccer team. They'll wear them for the first time tomorrow when they play Bulgaria in a UEFA European Football Championship qualifying match in London. NME Axl Rose and company packed it in last...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 1, 2010

Clothes Make The Man are offering a free download of "Dreamless Nights," which aired on Degrassi: The Next Generation. —clothesmaketheman.org LIGHTS is hardcore. No, seriously: Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta and Gallows have remixed two of her songs, which are available on iTunes now. All proceeds are going to The Greater New Orleans...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 30, 2010

Kanye West and Jay-Z are working on a collaborative album that's reportedly called Watch The Throne. It remains to be seen whether Kanye will interrupt Hova's rhymes about being the greatest rapper of all time. Twitter Axl Rose is really pissed off at the organizers of this past weekend's Reading and Leeds festivals in England. They...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 16, 2010

Van Halen's infamous 1982 backstage rider banning brown M&Ms from their dressing room has finally surfaced online. We're not entirely sure why the band specifically requested "herring in sour cream" be on the menu, nor why they needed a tube of KY Jelly, either, but hey. —The Smoking GunDeadmau5 will be MTV's house...
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I Read The News Today... For May 19, 2010

Axl Rose is suing Guns N' Roses' former manager, Irving Azoff, for $5 million U.S., claiming Azoff tried to "sabotage" GN'R by forcing an original members reunion. —New York Times R.E.M. will reissue their 1985 Fables Of The Reconstruction album on July 25. It'll be a two-CD package with 14 previously unreleased demos. —remhq.com...
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Axl Rose Defeats Purpose Of Twitter With 766-Word Tweet Announcing New Management

Have you heard of TwitLonger? It's this Twitter application that allows you to write tweets longer than 140 characters. Great, right? Well, not for anyone who follows Axl Rose. In his case, it just allows him to be an even bigger twit. The Guns N' Roses frontman posted a 766-word tweet (that's Biblical length in the Twitterverse) on Tuesday (...
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Sebastian Bach Saves Axl Rose From Being Stabbed

If Sebastian Bach's music career ever truly flops (some would say it already has...), he can always get a job as Axl Rose's bodyguard. The former Skid Row frontman reportedly tackled a switchblade-wielding "mystery man" who showed up at Guns N' Roses' surprise gig at New York City's Gramercy Park Hotel on Sunday (Feb. 14). The New...
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Axl Rose Responds To Slash Merch Ban Rumours With "Fuck"-Laden Rant

Axl Rose is extremely unhappy about those rumours that he's been banning Slash merchandise from recent Guns N' Roses shows. So upset, in fact, that he let loose on a fan who posted about it on the message board on Guns N' Roses' website. Rose's camp has denied the rumours, but a bunch of fans said at the end of January that Rose should have...
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Is Axl Rose Banning Fans From Wearing Slash Merch At Guns N' Roses Shows?

According to TMZ, Axl Rose has banned Guns N' Roses fans from wearing Slash merchandise or gear at Guns N' Roses' recent shows, though someone from Rose's entourage denies the allegations. TMZ reported on Sunday (Jan. 24) that concert security at one of Guns N' Roses' recent Canadian shows told fans wearing Slash T-shirts they had to turn them...
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Axl Rose Retracts Statement Regarding LAX Hissy Fit

After allegedly bloodying a few paparazzo at the Los Angeles International Airport, Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose is now denying a press statement he supposedly released last Friday. "I did not release any statement or authorize either any statement or anyone to release a statement regarding anything at any airport anywhere," he wrote...
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Axl Rose Involved In Fight With Photographers In Los Angeles

Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose reportedly got into a punch-up with a few photographers while he was on his way from Los Angeles to Taipei, Taiwan on Wednesday night (Dec. 9). According to Live Daily, Rose was heading through Los Angeles International Airport when he "got into a scuffle with a paparazzo that ended up with a few bloodied...
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Axl Rose: Slash Is "A Cancer"

Axl Rose has thrown many jabs and barbs at former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash in recent years, but now he's gone so far as to call him "a cancer." Rose hit out at Slash when he and friend/road manager Del James were interviewed by Spinner.com. Rose discussed last year's Chinese Democracy and, when asked about a Guns N' Roses reunion...
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EODM Vs. GNR: It's On Again

The great Eagles Of Death Metal/Guns N' Roses feud of 2006 has been renewed. EODM were booted from their opening slot for GNR's 2006 U.S. tour after they received a less-than-welcoming response from folks at Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena, and Axl Rose called the group the "Pigeons Of Shit Metal." Eagles frontman Jesse Hughes said...
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Axl Rose Vs. Guitar Hero

Axl Rose isn't pleased that the Guitar Hero franchise has used some of Guns N' Roses' songs. The group's leader expressed his displeasure with the franchise in a recent open letter he wrote to fans on the MyGNR.com website on Sunday. Rose says Guitar Hero's use of Guns N' Roses' "Welcome To The Jungle," from 1989's Appetite For...
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Axl Rose Visits Message Board Again

Axl Rose still isn't leaving his house to promote Guns N' Roses' long-awaited Chinese Democracy — and the way its sales are falling, it may already be too late to help — but at least he's talking. OK, typing is more like it. The reclusive frontman posted a very lengthy message on the MyGNR.com message board on Sunday that addressed a lot of...
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Axl Rose Talks To Fans

Axl Rose still isn't talking to journalists, but he chatted with fans on the message boards of the MyGNR.com and Here Today... Gone To Hell websites on Thursday night. On Here Today, the Guns N' Roses mastermind said he hasn't been involved much in band merchandise because "it's been a mess legally for years" and that "unbeknownst...
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